they're back!!

jack_bass_player

http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4690/893935025590935/1600/z/417947/image-upload-25-731121.jpg

oppie1

its just like the new Guns and Roses... 2 original members and a backup band....

jack_bass_player

8 mins!

i'm surprised it took even that long for someone to say that to be honest...

prytocorduroy

Boo..... I'm glad I'm going to a different show. I knew this was coming but this would've ruined tonight for me if I was there and got it confirmed at the show.

I'll get over it. I had hopes James was lying.

jack_bass_player

apparently

they opened with zero.. and then played today followed by stand inside your love


Setlist As It Stands:

Zero
Today (Electric)
Stand Inside Your Love
NEW SONG
NEW SONG

PissBottleMan

I talk out of both sides of my mouth on this issue.

For instance, I have no problem with Blind Melon continuing on without Shannon.

Guns N' Roses releasing an album and touring is fine.

But, I have problems with Billy and the Smashing Pumpkins moniker. This is a glorified solo tour.

PBM

phatucini

PissBottleMan wrote:

I talk out of both sides of my mouth on this issue.

For instance, I have no problem with Blind Melon continuing on without Shannon.

Guns N' Roses releasing an album and touring is fine.

But, I have problems with Billy and the Smashing Pumpkins moniker. This is a glorified solo tour.

PBM

Guns'N"Roses releasing an album ... Hahahahahahahahaaa!!!! Very funny!!

Going to the second concert of the reunion tour (in 48hours in Luxembourg) I'm really excited as it happens in a venue that only has a capacity of 800!!

Apparently Billy introduced the 2 new members as James & D'Arcy and got booed by the crowd (read that on some live blog where those photos were published... http://spliverex.blogspot.com/

mole1985

PissBottleMan wrote:

I talk out of both sides of my mouth on this issue.

For instance, I have no problem with Blind Melon continuing on without Shannon.

Guns N' Roses releasing an album and touring is fine.

But, I have problems with Billy and the Smashing Pumpkins moniker. This is a glorified solo tour.

PBM

and it was't the same for axl rose? He has the biggest ego EVER. But i agree it's no pumpkins. What if soundgarden got back together but it was just chris and ben? Not really SG without matt and kim.

PissBottleMan

phatucini wrote:

Guns'N"Roses releasing an album ... Hahahahahahahahaaa!!!! Very funny!!

I'll give them an inch...I've at least heard a few songs from the ghostly album.



PBM

phatucini

PissBottleMan wrote:

I'll give them an inch...I've at least heard a few songs from the ghostly album.



PBM

Billy's aka SP new record 'Zeitgeist' will be released on 7/7/2007

When is Axl's new record 'Chinese Democracy' coming out?? 7/7/7002!?

sadprofessor

I bought tickets yesterday for the Asheville shows, I am a fan, and I don't care about James and Darcy (mostly because Darcy kinda sucked, and James never cared much himself)... But it must be said, goddamnit Billy looks fucking stupid in that picture.

lowlight10

jack_bass_player wrote:

apparently

they opened with zero.. and then played today followed by stand inside your love


Setlist As It Stands:

Zero
Today (Electric)
Stand Inside Your Love
NEW SONG
NEW SONG

thanks jack. first info i've been able to find. is there a running list somewhere?

prytocorduroy

lowlight10 wrote:

thanks jack. first info i've been able to find. is there a running list somewhere?

Zero
Today
SIYL
Come On Let's Go
Doomsday Clock
(...)

Hummer
Set The Ray To Jerry
I Am One
Disarm
Tarantula
Starz (??)

33
Rocket
To Sheila
This Time

Le Machina Deux (??)
Glass + the Ghost Children (??)
Heavy Metal Machine (??)
*Billy talking*
Speed Kills




Nothing official yet though. Just word of mouth.

jack_bass_player

Zero
Today
SIYL
Come On Let's Go
Doomsday Clock
(...)
Hummer
Set The Ray To Jerry
I AM ONE
DISARM
TARANTULA
Starz (??)
Le Machina Deux
Billy talking
Speed Kills
To Shiela

All Those Yesterdays

PissBottleMan wrote:

I talk out of both sides of my mouth on this issue.

For instance, I have no problem with Blind Melon continuing on without Shannon.

Guns N' Roses releasing an album and touring is fine.

But, I have problems with Billy and the Smashing Pumpkins moniker. This is a glorified solo tour.

PBM

Why didn't he just call Zwan, The Smashing Pumpkins?

lowlight10

hmmm, still hoping this ends with XYU/Porcelina/Silverfuck

AndySlash

danny72688 wrote:

Zero
Today
SIYL
Come On Let's Go
Doomsday Clock
(...)

Hummer
Set The Ray To Jerry
I Am One
Disarm
Tarantula
Starz (??)

33
Rocket
To Sheila
This Time

Le Machina Deux (??)
Glass + the Ghost Children (??)
Heavy Metal Machine (??)
*Billy talking*
Speed Kills




Nothing official yet though. Just word of mouth.

lol, that's mostly BS.


From an Italian board, which also has periodic videos, this seems the most plausible:

1)intro
2)today
3)stand inside your love
4)*new song*
5)*new song* (come on let's go?)
6)home
7)hummer
8)starz
9)tarantula
10)bullet with butterfly wings
11)*new song*(United States?)

acoustic set
12)for God and country
13)33
14)rocket
15)winterlong
16)to sheila
end of acoustic set

17)glass and the ghost children
18)cherub rock
19)1979
20)intermezzo al piano
21)tonight tonight
22)*new song* (thats the way?)
23)Disarm
24)zero
25)untitled

encore
26)shame
27)silverfuck

encore 2
28)annie-dog
29)muzzle

jack_bass_player

the ones i really wanted to see were 1979, disarm, today, tonight tonight, cherub rock, geek usa, raindrops and sunshowers, jellybelly, bullet with butterfly wings, thirty three, landslide, soma.. and now tarantula

prytocorduroy

Eh....it was scrambled a bit. Doesn't look too bad compared to what you have.

AndySlash

From Myspace:

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS DESCEND ON THE CITY OF LIGHT
FOR FIRST PERFORMANCE SINCE 2000;

BAND EARNS RAPTUROUS RESPONSE FROM FANS AT SOLD-OUT SHOW AT THE HISTORIC GRAND REX THEATRE IN PARIS, FRANCE

Taking the stage for the first time since December 2, 2000, THE SMASHING PUMPKINS drew a rapturous response tonight (May 22) from 2200 fans who packed the historic and elegantly appointed Grand Rex in Paris, France. It was the much-anticipated first stop on the band’s world tour, and tickets for the intimate and wide-ranging three-hour show had sold out within minutes of going on sale. The Parisians gave the band a true hero’s welcome as they debuted material from the July 10 release ZEITGEIST (Martha’s Music/Reprise)--their first album of new material since 2000--alongside an array of Pumpkins classics and fan favorites that have defined the alternative music era and underlined the band’s diversity. *See the evening’s set list at the end of release.

ZEITGEIST—which features the just-released single “Tarantula,” now buzzing loudly at Rock and Alternative radio as well as all over the internet----represents a powerful rebirth and reaffirmation of the Smashing Pumpkins by two of its key members, main singer-songwriter and guitarist Billy Corgan and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. At the Grand Rex, they welcomed Jeff Schroeder (guitar) and Ginger Reyes (bass) to the line-up, which is supported by keyboardist Lisa Harriton.

Next up for the Pumpkins: they're headlining major European festivals from May 28 at Holland's Pinkpop festival through June 17 at Switzerland's Greenfield Festival, returning to Europe August 17 in Belgium (Pukkelpop Festival) and England August 24 (Leeds Festival) and August 26 (Reading Festival) as well performing in Istanbul, Turkey September 1. The band’s itinerary *******s a “Live Earth” performance July 7 at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ and headlining festival appearances at the Virgin Festivals in Washington, DC (August 5) and Toronto, ONT (September 8).

The Pumpkins also announced two sets of residency gigs in the U.S.: nine unprecedented shows at the Orange Peel in Asheville, NC (June 23, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30 and July 2, 3, and 5) plus 11 shows at the historic Fillmore in San Francisco (July 15, 16, 18, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30 and 31 and August 1). At these very special and intimate residencies—both of which instantly sold out--the band will vary set lists from night to night. They’ll perform songs from Zeitgeist and Pumpkins classics plus retool songs that didn’t make it onto Zeitgeist and even offer tunes written the day of the show. These shows will give fans a unique opportunity to see the Pumpkins inside the process of creation and operating in the spur of the moment. The band will be taking chances in the hope of taking fans, and their music, to new places.

Check out the band’s tour dates at http://www.smashingpumpkins.com and http://www.myspace.com/smashingpumpkins.


THE SMASHING PUMPKINS, GRAND REX, PARIS, FRANCE
5/22 SET LIST

United States
Today
Stand Inside Your Love
Orchid
Doomsday Clock
Home
Hummer
Starz
Tarantula
Bullet
Gossamer
33
Rocket
Winterlong
To Sheila
Glass and the Ghost
Cherub Rock
1979
Tonight
Neverlost
That's the Way
Disarm
Zero
Untitled
__________
Shame
Silverfuck
_____________
Annie Dog
Muzzle

duggro

why do people not understand that the pumpkins line-up is a fluid thing?

did they cease being the pumpkins when jimmy was chucked and replaced?

did they cease being the pumpkins when d'arcy was chucked and replaced?

no, because corgan (with the pumpkins mindset) is the smashing pumpkins.

zwan wasnt the pumpkins because he specifically didnt want them to be the pumpkins